Phoog's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Track One_RR]

Nice nice

The intro is good. It's just enough to make you not lose interest and wait for the track to build up. The bass sounds really good in this bit, from what I can hear. My built in speakers aren't great at pumping out the low-end.

When it hits into the drop at the 1 minute mark it seemed to take a wrong turn. Not necesarily a bad one. But the synths used made it feel more mellow than what was expected after the intro. I was expecting something a bit more hard hitting with a harsh lead.

I loved the crowd cheers. You pulled it off without making it cheesey, like so many other songs.

You obviously have a fairly good idea of what you're doing, for someone fairly new to what they're doing.

5'd

RenoakRhythm responds:

Thanks for the 5. And thanks for just coming to listen to the song, means alot.

Ya, it does take a mellow turn, however after this uploaded version ends I lull for a minute then come back hard. Hopefully I don't lose the audience with the mellowness. I wrote this in mind that it will be heard over again, so having the mellow part kinda is like OMG, i can't wait for the 4 minute area for it to come in hard.

I spent a lot of time on the crowd so it wouldn't be cheesy. I've heard amateur stuff with crowds and its annoying, I almost didn't use it, but its a club song and it needs the club feel of the crowd to be truly enjoyed online, though i would think not to put the crowd sound if played at a club.

Thanks so much for the review.

RR

[GBI - My First Hip Hop Beat]

Personally

I can't say it's any worse that what some actual hip-hop producers have created.

For me though I'm more of a fan of using real drums and loops for percussion in hip-hop. It just sounds more, thingymabob.
As far as the kick and the snare go, I can't complain, I'm not feeling that hat, though, maybe something a bit more sizzly with the high end EQ'd.

Maybe if you cut up the guitar a bit to make it sound less like it was recorded in one go you could get some good effects. But that's just my preference.

[==(Repairing a Broken Sky]

Happy Birthday SBB!

The saw lead and the percussion reminded me of them "Animusic" albums. Especially the first song from the first album.

The overall track made me feel like I was floating through this advert though: http://www.visit4info.com/advert/Kell oggs-Coco-Pops-Moons-Stars-What-Goes-
On-in-that-Bowl-Kelloggs-Cereal-Range /59197

That's a good thing. Coco Pops Moons & Stars taste really nice. 5'd.

[Town Theme Loop]

It doesn't

It doesn't sound like a video game. (this is from your response tp Vengeance's reveiw btw)

Video game (Gameboy, NES, SNES, etc etc.) are 8bit/chiptune. This is MIDI.
Take the midi file from this and import it into a sequencer and use it with some chiptune VSTs.

And yeah, I think the NES could only play something like 4 "instruments" at a time.

Overall it's not bad, it definately would work for what you composed it for, you just need to upload a proper song, not the midi.

[Haze [MotN]]

Percussion

This was decent, except for the drums.

I'd look for a hi-hat and cymbal that is more sizzle-y, then EQ the high end on it so it sounds quite thin. The ones used at the moment seem a bit more angry and sort of kill the mood of the song.

Also, the snare could be replaced with something a bit more calm. At the moment it's out of place with the kick. The kick is really mellow and laid back, and the snare it a bit too aggressive for the overall picture.

However, everything else sounds good! Keep it up.

[Sunday And The Vacant Lot]

Nice!

This could work well for an intro into some more hard-hitting broken beat, maybe sort of along the lines of dnb.

However, it'd still be great how it is.

I'll be awaiting the full-length song. :)

LLAAPPSSEE responds:

Thanks for the listen. Yeah, we'll see if i ever decide to finish this. x_x
I haven't worked on it since i posted it up. Was sort of a piece that allowed me to mess around with some various idea / samples / plugins / etc : O

[No One But Me (Piano)]

Totally not emo

How did you record this?

It's very nice, I'd like to hear a longer version.
And for only 13, nice job. Did you start piano at an early age?

Zero123Music responds:

Shamefully I am only Grade 2 Piano, you must understand this is not my best work lol, I will be uploading my Piano Collections hopefully this week as my Sibelius is not working grrr....

Thanks for the 'Totally not emo' and My father has this Mp3 player with a Line-in cord and he can record stuff by directly plugging the Mp3 into the headphone slot. Much easier and cheaper than a recording studio, I think it's called RCA Lyra, maybe google it, hope I helped and thanks for the review :D

[ParagonX9 - Chaoz Impact]

Cool

The sound has evolved from the older stuff of yours that I've heard.

The lead synth and melody quite reminded me of the stuff I've heard from Pendulum.
I could be way off, though, I don't listen to them to be honest.

I can feel a real sense of Spor in those drums, though. That's excellent.

Nice to hear something new from you.

[Flesh Eating Bacteria]

Cool

Your screams are getting better. You're acquiring quite a unique sound, keep it up.
I have to confess, I skipped the solo, solo's not my thing.
And guttural isn't the correct term, just a heads up ^ ^
5'd

[Logic Trance]

:O Presets!

If I'm right, you used the "Lost in Trance" preset for the lead, and the trance 2 kit for that kick.

If you fiddled with some of the synths, and got some other samples for the drums, this track could have some good potential.

wilb0b responds:

I'm actually using "Trance Hook" for both lead and rhythm and I'm using "Trance Remix Kit" and for the beats i programmed them but didn't work on them too hard, i only worked on this for an hour but i don't think i'll fix this, but i'll be making more on logic and doing some more fiddling so i can find better things but thanks for the review!